Supporting-belt.



H. SELTZER.

SUPPORTING BELT.

APELICATION FILED NOV-3.1914.

1 ,205,034. Patented Nov. 14, 1916.

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SUPPORTING-BELT.

Application led November 3, 1914.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, I-IYMAN SnLTZnR, a subject of the Czar of Russia, and a resident of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Supporting-Belts, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates more particularly to a class of devices adapted to be used in conjunction with the swimming device as disclosed in my pending application serially numbered 869,419, filed October 30th', 1914.

My invention has for its objectJ primarily to provide a form of belt designed to be employed especially for permitting the above mentioned swimming device to be readily applied to a person as well as enabling the device to be properly supported for manipulation when in use, and which consists essentially of a longitudinally disposed iiexible strap member adapted to be guided around the waist of the person. Depending from the longitudinal strap member are two flexible strap members which are relatively disposed in substantially an X-shape, and these depending strap members are adapted to be guided around the legs of the wearer so as to be attached to the longitudinal strap member.

Other objects of the invention are to provide means for permitting the depending strap members to be detachably and adjustably fastened to the longitudinal strap member; and to provide on the strap members means whereby the swimming device may be removably mounted on the belt.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, the said invention being more fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims at the end ofthe description.

In the drawing, Figure l is a side view of one form of supporting belt embodying my invention as applied to a person. Fig. 2 is a front view of the belt when on the person, and Fig. 3 is an elevation of the belt.

The swimming device has a longitudinally disposed strap member, or support 10 which may be made of canvas, or other suitable flexible material. 'Ihe strap member 10 may be of any desired width, and this Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, 1916.

serial No. 870,070.

strap member is of a length to adapt it to be guided when in use around the waist to embrace the hips of a person. To spaced parts of the strap member 10 intermediate its ends are fastened the upper ends of two depending strap members 11 and 12 both of which are also made of canvas or other flexible material, and these depending strap members are disposed crosswise with relation to each other in the form of Aan X. The )(-shaped strap members 11 and l2 are of lengths to adapt them to be guided under the legs of the wearer so as to extend upwardly in front of the body for the free ends thereof to be fastened to the ends of the longitudinal strap member, or support 10.

Serving as means to permit the depending flexible strap members 11 and 12 to be detachably fastened to the longitudinal strap member as well as allowing the belt to be adjusted so as to iit persons of different sizes, in the end portions of the longitudinal strap member 10 are spaced eyelets or holes, as 13 Vand 14E, and on the free ends of the depending strap members 11 and 12 are provided buckles 15 and 16 which may be of well known forms, as shown, or instead of these buckles any suitable types of fastening devices may-be employed.

In order to allow the swimming device to be removably mounted on the belt as well as enabling the device to be properly supported, at the intersection of the strap member 10 with the strap member 11 is a back plate, or gusset, as 17. Also at the intersection of the strap member 10 with the strap member 12 is a second back plate, or gusset, as 1S, and at the junctures of the free end parts of the X-shaped strap members is a front plate, or gusset 19. All of these plates may be made of leather, or other suitable flexible material adapted to reinforce the parts of the strap members which are connected together as well as to provide firm supports for eyes, asQO, 21,y Y

22, one of which is provided on each of the plates, and these eyes serve to admit the hooks which are provided on a retainer arranged on the said swimming device.

IVhen the belt is applied to a person, as indicated at 23, the longitudinal strap member 10 is guided around the persons waist so that the back plates 17 and 18 will be disposed over the hips and the eyeleted ends of the strap are directed to the front of the waist. The strap members 11 and l2 are then guided under the legs of the person toward the front, and lthe buckles of these straps are fastened to the eyeleted ends of the strap member, or support 10.

In the foregoing description I have embodied the preferred form of my invention, but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein without departing from the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claims.4

Having thus described my invention, IA

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A supporting belt for supporting a swimming device on the body, comprising' a flexible supporting member adapted to be guided around the waist of a person, two flexible strap members toward the back depending from spaced parts ofthe central portion of the supporting member, the said strap members being adapted to be guided under the legs and to the front of the person in crossed relation, and a fastening' device on each of the strap members, adapted to engage one of the ends of the supporting member for detachably connecting the members together, at the front of the body, and means on said strap members for connecting said belt to a swimming device, substantially as set forth and for the purpose speci- IiedL 2. A belt of the character described, comprising a flexible supporting member adapted to be guided around the waist of a person, two flexible strap members arranged in approximately an X-shape depending from the central portion of the supporting'member at the back, the said strap members being adapted to be guided under the legs and to the front of the person, a fastening device on thefree end of each of the strap mem-bers, adapted to engage one of the ends `from spaced parts of the central portion of the supporting member and disposed in convergent and crossed relation and connected where crossed, the said strap members being adapted to be guided under the legs and to the front of the person, a fastening device on each of the strap members adapted to engage one of the ends of the supporting member for defachably connecting the members together, two back plates located between the straps and the portion of the supporting member therebetween, and means on said plates for connecting said belt to a swimming device.

l. A belt of the character described, comprising a flexible supporting member adapted to beguided around the waist of a person, two flexible strap members arranged in approximately an X-shape depending from the central portion of the supporting member, the said strap members being adapted to be guided under the legs and to the front of the person, a fastening device on each of the strap members, adapted to engage one of the ends of the supporting member for dctacliably connecting the members together, two flexible back plates and a fiexible front plate on the members, and an eye ou each of the plates, substantially as set forth and for the purpose specified.

This specification signed and witnessed this second day of November, A. D. 1914.

HYMAN SELTZER.

Witnesses M. DERMODY, H. M. RosEN'rHAL.

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